The Virtual Machine (VM) templates I created for each Operating System (OS) were made with the smallest possible Virtual Hard Drives to conserve space. When I deploy one of these VM templates I almost always run into disk space problems. This is an easy situation to deal with in both the Windows and Linux OS.
You can use the NetDom command-line utility to join a computer to an Active Directory domain. This is useful when scripting or just for system administrators who prefer the command-line to GUI.
It is essential to install the DNS server role on any Domain Controller you promote in an Active Directory domain. This can be accomplished on your Windows Server 2008 Core systems using the OCSetup command-line utility.
You can demote the last domain controller in an Active Directory domain using the DCPromo command-line utility. Once it has been demoted you can safely remove the DNS Role from the server and reboot.
Today I tried installing software from CD onto my Windows 7 Ultimate (x32) system and I encountered a read error on the media. Since I have a valid Serial Number for the software, I decided to fire up uTorrent v1.8.5 (Build 17414) and download the CD ISO. The torrent started downloading at over 700 kB/sec and was 35% complete when the transfer failed with the following error.
Error: The requested operation cannot be performed on a file with a user-mapped section open.
Many organizations still deploy the Windows XP SP2 Operating System on their workstations. If you are a system administrator you are probably familiar with the essential command-line tools available in the Microsoft Server line of Operating Systems such as NetSh, NetDom, DnsCmd, and more. Unfortunately the Windows XP SP2 Operating System does not offer any of these tools by default.
To configure Windows Server 2008 Core to be the first Domain Controller (DC) in a new Active Directory (AD) Domain Services (DS) Forest, you must configure some prerequisites such as Rename the Computer with NetDom, Configure the Network Interface with NetSh, and Install the DNS Server Role with OCSetup.
After a fresh Windows Server 2008 Core installation, the computer is given a random hostname. One of the first steps to configuring the server is to rename the computer. To do this you must use the NetDom command-line utility and then reboot the server.
While you can use a remote MMC to make configuration changes to a Windows Server 2008 Core installation, you can only use a remote MMC once you have already configured the required network and administrative configuration of the Server Core system from the command line first.
The Windows Server 2008 Network Shell (Netsh) Technical Reference provides a comprehensive command reference for networking technologies such as Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP), Network Policy Server (NPS), Network Access Protection (NAP), and Routing and Remote Access Services (RRAS), among many other technologies for which there are netsh commands.
Netsh commands offer an alternative to configuring network technologies using the Windows interface. You can run netsh commands in batch files and scripts, and you can run them from the netsh prompt by manually typing commands. You can use netsh commands to configure both local and remote computers.